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@aient @timmy HENRY A. HOUSE, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND FRANK ARMSTRONG,

OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

I Letters Patent No. 101,016, (lated March 22, 1870; a'nvtedafted March 17, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT METHOD OF PRODUCING- SELVAG-ES ON MACHINE-KNIT STOCK- ING-S, 84o.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sama To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. House, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticuthave invented a Mode of Producing Selvages ou Machine-Knit Stockings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptiontliereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of a portion of a knittingmachine adapted for producing tubular work, showinghow a piece of yarn is looped upon 44the needles for producing a selvage.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of several needles, showing the operation of forming the selvage.

Figure 3 shows the selvage as produced around the upper portion of a. stocking by machine.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to produce a selvage around the upper portion of a stocking .by machinery at the commencement of knitting, at the same time making such selvage forni a separating'line between the work which is used for setting up and the stocking, as will be hereinafter explained.

The following description of my invention will enable others skilled' in the art to carry it into eiiect.

In, the accompanying drawings Arepresents a portieri of the frame of a knitting'- machine adapted for producing circular or tubulaiwork; and l lib represent latch-needles, which may be applied to quills or sheathes a, as shown.`

I prefer to use needles-which have vertical movements independent of their guiding quills, although I do not confine myselfto such devices. N or do I claim under this petition for Letters Patent the peculiar construction of the needle-quills, nor the mode of guiding and operating them, as the selvage which I shall hereinafter describe may be produced on other knitting-machines of the tubular kind.

The work is set up on the machine' in the usual Well-known manner, namely, by attaching to the neeldles a piece of circular work,and applying the tension weight to the work so as to'draw down upon it at the commencement of the knitting. Having thus applied an fold piece ot' work to the needles, the yarn is passed through vt-he yarn-guide and the knitting proceeded with in the usual manner untilv several courses are knit. The yarn leading from the spool is then broken, and the end att-ached to the work knit into the last course of stitches.

A piece, c, of yarn of the same color as the yarn d used in knitting the stocking, or of a different color, and of proper length, is then looped upon all the ncedles, as shown in iig. 1,v and one end of it attached to the yarn leading from the spool. The knitting is then proceeded with as before, and while forming the first course of loops g, the yarn d will be drawn through the loops e, and these loops cast oli` the needles, so as to tie the loops g and form a selvage and a finish around the upper end ofthe stocking.

When the stocking is finished and removed from the machine, it is separated from the piece used in setting up, by cutting through the port-ion which was formed between the selvage and said piece, and then raveling out to the selvage.

Having described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-- ters Patent, is-

The mode, substantially as described, of 'forming a selva'ge on knit fabric by machinery. HENRY A.. HOUSE.v

Witnesses:

K GEORGE C. BISHOP, ALFRED B. Beans. 

